A Few Games, A Few Links

After reading about our Small World game for Big Kids, Jahnavi asked for suggestions for games for kids who are 3 or 4 years old. Alas, it’s tough to find a game for the preschool set that’s much fun for parents. Really, any fun at all. My kids liked Hi Ho Cherry Oand Candyland. Classics, although the actual games are pretty dreary except that the kids take such delight in playing them. We all liked playing Poppa’s Pizza Topple, although the pieces are too slippery-slidey, so it was only fun once we’d roughed them up enough to be able to play a decent game. Later there two games that both kids loved-loved-loved for a long, long time: Guess Who and Zingo. They still play Guess Who sometimes. Both of these games were improvements over Hi Ho and Candyland, although since I’ve played them about a thousand times, and somewhere in the three hundreds it became pretty tiresome.

How about the rest of you, dear readers? Any suggestions on games for the preschool set?

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I played five rounds of Zingo today, and I’m done with it. For today! We love the BusyTown game– it’s one of the few games where the players are on a team to reach the end together. We also love Pass the Pigs and The LadyBug Game.

My girls (12, 10, 1nd 8) play guess who, but with one modification: they are not allowed to ask the gender of the character. There are only 5 girls, so if you ask “Is your person a girl?” and it is, you have almost *no* chance of winning! My daughters and their friend prefer playing it this way. Also, zingo is a favorite, as is zooreka (sp.?).

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